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One of the key aspects of democracy is that you respect your opponent and don't call for their exile/execution. Maybe you have spent too long in an echo chamber, it is important to actually get views from both sides. One of the great things about this country is that historically it has not swung too extreme because when one side gained too much power then voters then switched and voted for the other side gained power and changed some of the recent changes the other side just made. This prevents the country from going too far extreme in one direction or the other. Respect for people who have different political opinions and ability to compromise with them are key.

You used to be a normal dude. Now you are saying that you want all elected officials who have a different political opinion than you to be exiled or executed? That is what leaders due in banana republic dictatorships like Venezuela. What caused you to be such an extremist?

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Maybe it stays as gypsybrat. Ideally we should get everyone here and voting on rule changes well before our draft though. The problem is that half the league doesnt check in during the offseason.

Best of luck, hopefully they get in to see you quickly and have a treatment available.

I haven't seen the TCL operating system, but LG can be quite slow compared to my samsung TV. I like having the TV respond quickly so i would recommend Samsung. OLED also is not as bright as other technologies. Depending on your room OLED may not be the best choice.

Sony hasn't made it's own tv's in years. They re-sold LG or samsung panels, however they recently signed a joint venture with TCL and TCL will make all "Sony" tv's going forward.

They still make waterbeds. Go retro! The cheapest option from mattress firm works fine. You can by a split king that tilts up for pretty cheap. We were ~1000 dollars all in including both mattresses. I do have to sleep tilted up because of acid reflux. But you dont have to spend much money.

A decline in refining capacity has been happening in many states, this is not unique to California. Texas is an outlier in this regards as our refining capacity is up, probably to pick up the slack. All down: North Dakota: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_SND_a.htm Wyoming: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_SWY_a.htm Louisiana: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_SLA_a.htm In addition many states import gasoline, for example Florida does not have a single refinery. There are certainly pro/con's when it comes to refineries, they are ugly, they pollute, and while the jobs are high paying, they come with risks. My kids have come to associate seeing the refineries as the signal that the drive to the beach is almost over. They will get happy when they see the refineries because they know they are almost there. Kind of sad if you put thought into it. Pristine beaches would be nice. Closing refineries in California will certainly hurt this countries fuel supply. The two refineries that either recently shutdown or are do to shutdown this year in California provide 2% of the US refining capacity. There is a reason we only do a tiny amount of rare earth processing in the US, it is a pollution heavy industry. I understand why Florida has never built any refineries. It would be kind of nice not living around this stuff.

From my understanding it is all gulf coast refined gasoline. However, it is cheaper to send gasoline from Texas/Lousianna to Bahamas, then stage the gasoline in bahamas and then export the gasoline from bahamas to California because of the Jones act. I don't think Bahama's has any oil refineries and they definitely don't have a domestic oil industry. The jones act states that any goods shipped from one US state to another have to be on US ships with US personnel. This is a loophole so that the shipping of gasoline can be done cheaper by foreign companies using cheap labor and poorly maintained boats. Many states import gasoline from Texas/Louisiana, not sure how many use a loophole to get around Jones act though.

Only if her name is Charity.

I am not following this at all, however I just checked foxnews to see where you are getting your information that it is staged, and they say nothing about it. They are saying that someone was arrested on assault charges? What is your news source?

You can donate it to library or a museum when you go out somewhere that has a donation box.

It doesn't seem like wanting to kill people that have a different political opinion is a part of the democratic republic that our founding fathers were hoping for.

You hope protestors are killed because they have a different political opinion than you?

I have the below, bought it years ago when i doubt it was more than 80 dollars, but it is expensive now. I use it constantly, packaging fish I catch/fillet before freezing is the main use, but also use it for souse vide and storing other food in the freezer occasionally. I have used at least ~30-50+ rolls by now and it still works like new. https://www.foodsaver.com/shop/food-vacuum-sealers/countertop-vacuum-sealers/foodsaver-fm2000-vacuum-sealing-system/SAP_2159372.html edit: I could never get the hose attachment to work and probably threw that away years ago. They might make a cheaper model without the hose attachment.

Also, there will be a huge bubble burst later this year in stock market. There is circular finance going around in the AI space. Nvidia is investing in it's customers, which then use that money to purchase computing power from data centers, the money the data centers receive from AI companies, then goes right back to Nvidia. CoreWeave is going to go under first though i think and that will start the toppling. Coreweave sells its computing power at a loss, and is building more data centers to sell at a loss. Eventually it's funding will run dry, and that will be the start. When coreweave and other data centers no longer buy from Nvidia, then nvidia's stock will tank. At about this point people will quit investing in venture capital's that invest in AI, this will cause companies like Open AI and Anthropic to declare bankruptcy. Then the banks that loaned them tons of cash like JP Morgan chase and Deutsche Bank will then realize they invested billions to tens of billions that they are never getting back. My guess is around July-September timeframe, but depending on if people keep throwing money at venture capital, maybe this bubble lasts another year. I don't think people realize the negative margins that both the data center companies and AI companies have. They are all just burning cash.

It screws businesses and poorer people though, since the average credit card processing fee is around 2-3%. When margins are tight that sucks. It also then affects poorer people since they are more likely to use cash over card. Businesses have to raise their prices by that 2-3% to cover the transaction, which means that the poorer people paying cash are subsidizing the people with more money who then get cash back through their credit card. I use card for almost everything. I am guilty of this, but it still sucks. No way am I carrying cash around, and stopping at an ATM machine every week.

But the reason a market is hot is because more people are moving there and the reason a market is cold is because there is less demand. By how the market works there will always be less people moving from hot market to to cold market than the other way around. This would only benefit a minority of home owners.

About 5% of families own a 2nd home, and I do hope to be one of them in about ~5 years or so. But home building policies shouldn't be based around families that can afford 2 homes. Going back to my first post, there were 6.8 million homes built in last decade when population was ~320 million people and in 1960's there were 9.3 million homes built when population was 200 million people. That is 1 house per every 47 people in last decade, but 1 house for every 21 people in 1960's. If we don't build enough houses, then the cost of housing will be much higher. This is why housing costs have greatly outstripped inflation. Maybe subsidies aren't the perfect answer, maybe there is a better solution. I do like trump's plan to limit corporate home ownership, but we also need to figure out a way to get more houses being built if young people are going to be able to afford housing in the future. https://www.builderonline.com/data-analysis/nahb-second-home-areas-gain-market-share_c

I understand where the confusion lies now. When subsidizing something, you can subsidize either the producers or the consumers. For example our steel, aluminum, and concrete industries all receive subsidies somewhere of about 1-3% of their revenue. This is an example of a producer subsidy. Subsidizing homeowners or college tuition is an example of a consumer subsidy. When you subsidize the consumer, it creates artificial demand and that artificial demand can drive the price back up to the original cost. However, when you subsidize the producer, it does not have that effect. This is why i stated that homebuilders should be subsidized, not homebuyers. I also explicitly layed out this risk in my previous post. If you go back and re-read it, the home building industry is both producer and a consumer. The largest products it consumes would be lumber and concrete. Specific care would have to be taken so that your concern would not happen. We would not want the cost of lumber to skyrocket because homebuilders were subsidized.

Typically when an industry is subsidized it causes an increase in production and a decrease in cost for the end consumer. This is because when an industry is subsidized it encourages more companies to enter the market and for existing companies to increase production. Subsidies are typically tax breaks, but can also include grants and low cost loans. Grants would be more for research, like the government subsidizing new computer chip development or new battery technology. But for existing industries it would probably be tax breaks. Subsidies can cause an increase in pricing of raw materials for competing industries if that is not taken into account. For example if home builders were subsidized heavily then the demand for lumber would increase. If the supply of lumber is also not increased, either through subsidies or naturally then the price of the raw material will rise which negatively effects competing industries, ie furniture builders. But all of this can be taken into account by the people who are working on putting the bill together to actually subsidize an industry.

We want to limit home appreciation. It sounds good on paper, your home goes up in price. However, once you sell your home you need another home, and that home also appreciated in price. So it is a wash. The below stat is even worse than it initially looks. In 1960's there was roughly half the population then there is today and yet even though we had half the population we still built 50% more houses. Corporate ownership and lack of houses being built are making home ownership way too expensive. Hopefully Trump addresses the former, but we still need the latter addressed.

There should be a limit on how many homes you can own. Maybe set the limit somewhere around ~50 single family homes or ~10-25 apartment complexes? We also probably need to subsidize home builders. We have built the least amount of houses per capita in last decade in a long time. We need to build more homes.